Mitzi concludes with——
“””Whenever loyalty to the group eclipses loyalty to shared rules, corruption flourishes. The Minnesota scandal was not an aberration so much as a warning: When institutions assume trust without enforcing it, low-trust behavior fills the vacuum. Somalia shows what happens when that low-trust approach is entrenched.””””
The Somalis are not the only ones who are ‘loyal to the group’.
We can include illegal aliens in general who are loyal to their home country and not the USA.
Or we could include Antifa who is loyal to their destructive organization and not the USA.
ete, etc, etc
The same can be said of politicians.
Explains why many quickly become millionaires on salaries that won’t pay the rent in many DC suburbs
We can include Democrats whose loyalty to the group exceeds their loyalty to our country. It explains why Democrat and Patriotic can never be used in the same sentence.
“Whenever loyalty to the group eclipses loyalty to shared rules, corruption flourishes.”
There is a hidden assumption in this article.
When someone is loyal to their group there is no such thing as corruption within the group.
In fact corruption is when you allow anyone else access to resources that your group could have instead.
That has been the human condition since we crawled out of the caves.
It was a great experiment to see if we could change those old axioms.
In fact—while we accuse leftists of Utopia—it was our side that has been very Utopian.
We believed in “magic dirt”—the notion that if you brought anyone in the world to a nation with Western values they would eventually adopt Western values.
The experiment has failed.
The only question is how long it will take before we abandon our Utopian vision and start facing the reality of the human condition.
“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” Ayn Rand
Rand did not take the next step—to recognize that if you refuse to be a member of a tribe all the other tribes will eventually stomp all over you.